Dallas Theater Center announced today Megan Hilty and Seth Rudetsky will headline Centerstage 2015 on Saturday, May 9. Chaired by Yvette Ostolaza, with Underwriting Chair Kersten Rettig and Honorary Chair Jeanne Marie Clossey, Centerstage 2015 will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, which will be transformed for the evening. (more...)

As part of the Alley Theatre's inaugural season in its renovated downtown building, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's All The Way, a co-production with Dallas Theatre Center, will be performed in the new Hubbard Theatre. Members of the Alley's Resident Company will join with members of the Dallas Theater Center to create this monumental play about Lyndon B. Johnson's early days in office, rehearsing and performing in Houston in January 2016 and travelling to Dallas for a second run in March 2016. (more...)

When Glen Berger signed on to write the script for a musical adaptation of SPIDER-MAN, alongside director Julie Taymor and music team Bono and the Edge, Berger thought he was about to have a mega-hit on his hands. But as he shares on a recent episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, it was not to be. Click here to listen to the full interview! (more...)

Off Strip Productions, the Onyx Theatre's resident theatre company, presents The Weird by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics. The limited run begins Thursday, February 19, at the Onyx Theatre in Commercial Center and plays through March 7. The show is directed by Producing Director Troy Heard. (more...)

The Des Moines Community Playhouse Play Reading Series presents Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information,' 7:00 PM, Monday, Jan. 5. The evening is free; beverages will be available for purchase. (more...)

Dallas Theater Center heads back to the Kalita Humphreys Theater with The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarias. Meredith McDonough, who previously worked on the new hit musical Fly By Night, returns to make her DTC directorial debut in this comedy about books and the people who love them. The Book Club Play begins previews on Thursday, January 1, 2015 with a Pay-What-You-Can performance and runs through Sunday, February 1. (more...)

The Rainbow Theatre Project launched their sophomore season last month and continues to shine a spotlight on new LGBTQ plays with its schedule for November. Coming next is the company's first fully-staged presentation, Brave Soul Collective's WTF Happened to Baby Sister?, and the next installment of its successful Generation Q Staged Reading Series: Jeffrey Higgins' I'm Just Saying… with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's short play Swamp Gothic. (more...)

American Psycho, following its cancelled U.S. premiere at Second Stage Theatre, will receive a developmental lab reading in January 2015 in New York City, according to a new Equity casting notice. (more...)

In Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's provocative play, we meet Brandon Hardy, who leads a charmed life as the popular star student at a prestigious Washington, DC prep school. However, his privileged life threatens to collapse when a disturbing videotape is found on campus. As the resulting scandal takes unexpected turns, Brandon's mother, Elizabeth, must sort out fact from fiction and confront unsettling truths about her son, herself, and their life. Good Boys and True contains adult language, including a graphic description of a sexual assault, and is not suitable for children. (more...)

In Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's provocative play, we meet Brandon Hardy, who leads a charmed life as the popular star student at a prestigious Washington, DC prep school. However, his privileged life threatens to collapse when a disturbing videotape is found on campus. As the resulting scandal takes unexpected turns, Brandon's mother, Elizabeth, must sort out fact from fiction and confront unsettling truths about her son, herself, and their life. Good Boys and True contains adult language, including a graphic description of a sexual assault, and is not suitable for children. (more...)

Now according to the New York Times, steps are being made to bring the show straight to Broadway in Fall 2015. Act 4 founder, David Johnson told NYT that the arrangements with Second Stage "just weren't in the best interests of the production and its continuing life." He also acknowledged that Broadway producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel were amongst "several theater professionals" who advised that the new musical should move straight to Broadway. Both of which are currently in talks to be lead producers for the Broadway run.
Richards told NYT: "I just felt the proposal by Second Stage was something that did not serve the best interests of the production. I heard from other producers that they also spoke with Act 4. We were all asked for advice, and we gave it. I saw 'American Psycho' in London, and I thought it was terrific." (more...)

Dallas Theater Center previously announced that Austin/Brooklyn band Foe Destroyer would return to the DTC stage in the upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Show. The self-described 'nerd, grunge, trash, pop' group will take center stage at the Wyly Theatre from today, September 11 through October 19. (more...)

Sweet alien transvestites will take over the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre stage tonight, September 11, 2014 in Dallas Theater Center's all new production of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Show. (more...)